Example sentences of "[noun sg] are to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can understand the designers ' reasoning , in that the knobs for the front pickup are to the front , and so on , but consciously or subconsciously , guitarists work from the selector switch , and my feeling is that that should point towards the pickup controls currently in use . |
| 2 | References below to the 1988 Act are to the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 as it applies to the semiconductor design right . |
| 3 | Food is to the body what friendship and community are to the psyche , and the world of nature to the integrated personality expressed as body-and-psyche . |
| 4 | Having realised how crucial START 1 and NPT ratification are to the West , many Ukrainians — 90% , according to the latest opinion polls — believe their country should hold out for financial compensation ; the current price tag , described as covering the costs of dismantling the warheads , is $1 billion . |
| 5 | It 's still a hot air story , and we give most hot air stories — some dignitary with no power to do anything to change the situation has ‘ called for ’ , ‘ demanded ’ , ‘ warned ’ or whatever — but the issue is so serious that it deserves notice : we have frequently highlighted the manner in which US — and European — anti-dumping measures that supposedly benefit a tiny minority are to the detriment of the vast majority , and there is now a groundswell of opinion at the US Department of Commerce that the International Trade Commission 's brief in considering charges of dumping should extend to a review of the impact of duties on consumers ; the current issue is the anti-dumping duties likely to be made permanent today on memory chip imports from South Korea , which are sought by Micron Technology Inc but opposed by both all memory chip users and by the US chip capital equipment manufacturers that sell to the South Koreans . |
| 6 | Since considerations of probability are to the fore in one part of actual scientific practice bearing on causation , and there is little attempt to go beyond them , and there is to hand the Probability Calculus , we are invited to take it that causation can come to no more than probability . |
| 7 | To a high-ranking official in a planning agency , the mechanisms of informal help in house-building between rural villagers are just as much an external process as the workings of that agency are to the villagers . |
| 8 | We have already seen how important affection and self-respect are to the horse , and they both touch on Plutchik 's basic emotions of love and acceptance . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most disturbing factor I have so far encountered is that any savings from outpatient surgery are to the purchaser 's benefit , not the provider 's , and therefore outpatient surgery will effectively incur a financial penalty . |
| 10 | If people and the building of not only buildings but mutual trust are to the fore , then education needs to be fundamentally different from what it was in the product and process phases . |
| 11 | Final Film are to the fore in the conversion of Apple Mac graphics to colour film for brochure work and run a fully integrated Crosfield colour reproduction installation , which now complements Rockcliffe' high volume Hiedelberg presses . |
| 12 | Presumably , the closer the referents of the familiar terms in a domain are to the potential referent of an unfamiliar word , the more specific are the inferences that children can legitimately make . |
| 13 | ‘ Christenings and weddings and funerals are to life what breakfast and lunch and dinner are to the day , ’ said Lydia . |